Show NEW REW RECORDS BEING SET SETIN I UINTAH IN WATER COUNT 1 Warm rains fell tell in this section much of the h heavy avy snow SI which Saturday and Sunday melting covered the area and bringing small streams to a flood stage But Nature operated co-operated and brought a a heavy freeze Sunday night followed by cold weather Monday which prevented further heavy run run- runoffs run and stopped a threatened winter mid-winter flood Moroni Marchant's February 1 snow survey report indicated that new records are being set this winter ti altitudes WEBER RIVER RIVER- Trial Lake elevation feet teet has 02 inches of snow with inches of water Normal water content for Feb 1 is 1615 inches of water Trial Lake is per percent percent percent cent of average and equal to the inches of ot water normal for April 1 Smith and elevation elevation eleva eleva- tl tion n feet has 44 inches of I snow snow with inches of water Th The year 15 average l is 78 In inches hes of Water Vater and the average average for for fob April 1 is' is inches of water This isa is la laa isa a new new r record record coid for Feb 1 Chalk Creek No Two elevation te feet haa has inches of snow mow with Inches of f water compared compared com par pared d with an average average ver ge 85 Aver Average Average Aver age for April 1 Is This Isa is isa isa a new new record for lor Feb 1 Chalk Creek No Three elevation 7 has h has inches of snow ow B es compared to toan an average This is percent of normal and five inches Inches Inches' I more than the 79 inches that la is is avera for April 1 f PROVO RIVER RIVER- Soapstone elevation has 83 Inches of snow snow with 6 16 Inches of ot water Normal is 80 inches of water water- for Feb 1 I inches of water for April 1 Only in 1952 has baa there been more more mor m moisture on this course in April Beaver BeaverCreek Creek elev elevation Uon pas has as inches inched of ot snow with inches of water Normal vater water content content- for Feb 1 is 62 and for April 1 ies 92 91 This is the most w Water Aviter t e r vever ever measured on this bourse ourse with th the exception of 1952 1 With avalanches threatening loss 1088 of ot life and property in the Alta and Brighton areas Marchant Mar- Mar chant chantre reported there no danger anywhere along the Weber even evenIn evenIn evenin In Smith and but he said there Is some danger high along the Provo Thorough training In self pro serration has proven of great value in avalanches he Minor matters In time of great I danger become of Intense import Import 1 ance For instance i Two fellows I know were skiing skiing ski sid I ing down a dangerous slope on the Job and they they- went against l the rules in inserting their wrists in the leather loops on the end of the ski poles Both were caught In an avalanche and ana buried One was completely pinned down by his outstretched poles les and could not move One pole was torn tom loose from the hand of his companion com com- panion and he was able to dig digout digout digout out with this one hand Otherwise they'd still be there Marchant told of dangerous avalanches In the upper reaches of ot the Weber River r in pioneer days Men hauling lumber down the river on sleds sleda complained when the lead team was halted for tor harness repair But a. a few minutes later his grandfather rela related ed an avalanche roared across across the very spot ahead where they would have been had they not halted His Ilia grandfather was also a member of a group bringing down timber for construction of ot the i Peoa Church when avalanches I both behind and ahead of the I I group hemmed them 1 in t. t They fo fought their way through only b by determination and the the Grace Gice Gi- Gi ce I of God Clod and arrived in peoa Peoa 18 ho hours r late ate exhausted and almost frozen n r |